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John Charles Polanyi

"Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts."

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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

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"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."

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"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

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"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

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"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

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"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."

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